About us

Our kitchen offers countless traditional delicates, warm buffets and a variety of menus. We also offer the “classic” repertoire of tavern drinks as well as an extensive wine cellar. You can choose from a romantic candle-light dinner for 2 up to an exclusive arrangement for 450 persons.

Three basements in up to 18-m depth protect monuments of the history. The origins of the building go back till the Romanesque and Gothic, it was already mentioned 1339. The masonry of the well cellar, with his for the distinguished constructions of the Romanesque to typical stone ashlars, comes from the years around 1100. The mainly Gothic arched upper cellar still comes from the time before 1500. After his destruction in 1561 the house was rebuilt, the well cellar received his early-baroque curvature and the foundation-stone with the chiseled annual number 1561. In times of war, as well as during two Turk's sieges of Vienna (1529 and 1683) these underground floors served as shelter sites. Still today of it the only completely preserved Gothic well room testifies in the well cellar which served the enclosed at that time as a water spring.

In the years 1716 - 1721 the baroque facade was formed by the Viennese master builder Lucas von Hildebrandt, one nicest in Vienna which got the building the name Hildebrandthaus and stands under conservation of monuments and historic buildings.

In the Elloisches house, in the 1-st upper floor there is a scrolls explosive gable with the Maria's hermit monk Muttergottesstatue with putting splendour, inscription and Chronogramm (1717).

Famous artists, poets and painters have appeared in the course of the years since the existence of the Twelve Apostelcellar in 1952 here and the magic of the past years and the romanticism which breathe in this old vault on himself allow to work.

Your 12-A team
A piece of Viennese tradition
Meeting place for young and old
Open daily from 11.00 to 24.00 o´clock